Playoff trips 'special time' for Smith, Bears

1:13 AM,
Dec. 2, 2012

DeAndre Smith was the star quarterback on the Bears' playoff teams of 1989 and 1990.

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There can be postseason football excitement at Missouri State. Not even 22 years in between has faded those memories for DeAndre Smith, the Bears' star of the 1989 and 1990 playoff teams.

"You could feel the energy. It was a special time," Smith said.

Smith, a first-team Division I-AA All-America quarterback who's considered one of the greatest players in school history, led the Bears to a 38-35 home playoff win over Maine in 1989 and back to the playoffs the next year, in a 41-35 home loss to Idaho. ...